What is "brookes"

Brookes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Bruno Brookes, English broadcaster
• Dennis Brookes, English cricketer
• Ed Brookes (1881–1958), Irish international soccer player
• Jacqueline Brookes (1930–2013), American actress
• James Brooks (bishop) or Brookes, English bishop
• James H. Brookes, American Presbyterian writer
• Josh Brookes (1983– ), Australian motorcycle road racer
• Joshua Brookes (1754–1821), English divine and book collector
• Joshua Brookes (1761–1833), English anatomist and zoologist
• Mabel Brookes (1890–1975), Australian community worker, socialite and writer
• Norman Brookes (1877–1968), Australian tennis player, winner of Wimbledon
• Richard Brookes (fl. 1750), English physician and writer
• Warwick Brookes (1875–1935), English businessman, yachtsman and Conservative Party politician
• William Penny Brookes (1809–1895), English physician and "Father of the modern Olympics"
• John Brookes (Principal) (1891-1975), English Craftsman, Educator, Administrator who gave his name to Oxford Brookes University

The Brookes was a British slave ship of the 18th century that became infamous after prints of her were published in 1788.

An engraving first published in Plymouth in 1788 by the Plymouth chapter of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade depicted the conditions on board the Brookes and has become an iconic image of the inhumanity of the slave trade.

The image portrayed slaves arranged on the ship's lower deck and poop deck, in accordance with the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788. The Brookes was reportedly allowed to stow 454 African slaves, by allowing a space of by to each man; by to each women, and by to each child. However, the poster's text alleges that a slave trader confessed that before the Act, the Brookes had carried as many as 609 slaves at one time.

In July 2008, students and staff at Durham University in northeast England re-created the image of the Brookes print to draw attention to the atrocities of the middle passage, in an exercise that involved lying on the ground in a manner similar to the slaves arranged on the Brookes.